The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-27


The above notices were handed
around among the elect yesterday.
The prevailing sentiment was one of
relief that some one had been found
ingenious enough to ring a change on
the phrase American Gentlemen.
Prominent Gentlemen" with caps),
though smacking somewhat of Alta
Glubbism, exclusiveness. blue blood and
all that sort of thing-is still change,
and as such it will be welcome.
1t will be observed that neither of the
Busy BIS is included among the Prom
inent Gentlemen who coined the new
phrase, and attached their Prominent
names to it. This not due to any i'm
putstion that the Busy BIS are not
Prominent Gentlemen, only that if
their names had been appended to the
calls, those maIiciously disposed might
urge that it looked like q bid for
another gay winter amid the
whirl of Washington society, D. II.
| o. J. Hollister and Pat Lannan. are not
| down, because they are not recognized
| as Prominent Gentlemen in the strict
| Alta Club acceptation of the term.
THE HERALD never enjoys being late
or getting left, hence before the desig-
mated hour for the distinguished gather
| ing, one of its sWiftest and most expert
manipulators of the plumbago propelled
himself up the iron-shod stairs and
wheeled in to the Capitalized Judges
Room of the Federal Court House; his
optics both peeled and @uricles ex-
banded, and hexagonal faber arts tically
drawn to q point. Ordinary mOrtals
are, on occasions, AL ears, or all eyes,
but the well-regulated, orthodox HER
AID scribes are beautiful sympOsiums
of eyes. ears and pencils. Our
representative anticipated lively and
mighty interesting work, and
in his mind had builded columns of en-
Pertaining literature for the delectation
and instruction of the myriad readers of
the popular SUNDAY HERALD. But, alas
for human hopes and anticipations
Periodically Gentleman who had been
made the victim of one of the above
confidential invitations to consult
and contribute, sneaked into the judges
Room and glancing bashfully around the
chamber hitherto presumably devoted
| TO the discussion of cold law as laid
down IN judicial opinions, would heaYe
sigh Of relief rs he fattered himself
that the emptiness of the chamber in.
dictated the collapse of the consultation.
| Then he would slide out and trip lightly
down the stairs, nervously reaching for
the open air and the darkness before he
should be captured and led back to the
plucking by some more Loyal Citizen
than he. This edging in and sliding
out by ones continued for half an hour.
| When the two or three of the PrOmi-
nent who had mustered courage to re-
man after having entered the box, be-
gan to show signs of uneasiness as if
| they feared the Prominent Gentlemen
bait had not been swallowed as greedily
! as bad been anticipated. Then it was
that the industry and responsiveness OF
| the new party whips made themselves
apparent, and alleged and designated
Prominent Gentlemen to the number of
perhaps q dozen were marched
into the Judges Room. at pre-
cisely $50, Mountain time, with
big NJ, the waiting yet
faithful to the-cause of the SUNDAY
HERALD, reporter was politely or other
wise, as may be preferred, informed
that the injecting" was a "private"
oGe of Prominent Gentlemen, and that
they (the P. g. were not laundering for
his presence. In other words, he
was not respectfully invited to
be present" The reporter slid his
pencil point downward into the watch
pocket of his vest, buttoned his ulster,
tripped sadly down the steps, and out
into the dark and the cold. He was
not Prominent enough for the select
company, and that's why THE HERALD
readers will not know who is to indulge
in a lsh-de-dah excursion to Washing
ton this winter, nor who are the
Prominent Gentlemen, besides those
whose names appear above, who will
bear the expenses of the delegation
which is to play enemy to Utah.